An adventurer who bungee jumped from the same bridge just hours before a 21-year-old woman was launched to her death without a safety rope has claimed the organisers ‘let standards slip’ amid a huge backlog of thrill-seekers waiting for a turn.
Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, 21, died after plunging around 130ft from the abandoned Skeleton Bridge in Limeira, São Paulo state, in an incident captured on shocking video that has since spread widely online.
According to local reports, she had requested to perform an ‘airplane-style’ jump, in which she was lifted onto the shoulders of two instructors with her arms outstretched
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